{nur die Liebe hat sich gelohnt}

1. An enthusiastic carpet of bluebells in the half-light of a patch of wood near Little Hallingbury.

2. A nightingale walk in Fingringhoe: many to be heard, & the gorse out & beautiful, & the lilac out all over.

3. Oak trees are coming into leaf all over also. (I should check the cemetery over the road this week, see if we've got any oak there.)

4. Time with family-by-blood (at points 1&2), including Middle Tinycousin having made monkeybread and geeking out with me; and reiterating her desire to make art for me to keep on my walls; and dinner out and and and...

5. ... time with family-by-choice, cf previous locked post + also some stuff not mentioned in there, like "watching an Addams family film with TOL" and "dinner with a more extended subset of the polymer" and "Indelicates squee" and "Elementasquee" (curtailed on my part because I am Being Good and not watching this week's ep til I get home and can do so w/ my housemate).

6. The snake she slyly peeps; my mum's tulips various; and the hedgehog box in the back garden. (Also, the fig is coming along fantastically. Ditto the camellias.)

7. I have packed another round of stuff to go from parental home --> *?!@ House.

8. I am pleasantly sore - Spatzen - especially from 'chairing up a couple of slightly more enthusiastic hills than I normally come across.

9. More progress on the transfer report! It is slow going but it is progress.

10. Baby brother gets back to the country on Wednesday, and I am not yet convinced that Everybody Is Secretly Dead.

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Tumblr wants you to have a list of trans women in punk.

Poem: a tribute to introverts - "love me because"

alexconall just hosted a week in poetree on the topic of love poems by queer women (with future weeks on the diversity of queer women's experience, via the medium of poetry, to come).

Misc specfic shorts I want to get around to reading: Boat in Shadows, Crossing by Tori Truslow; The Litigation Master and the Monkey King, Ken Liu; Painted Birds and Shivered Bones, Kat Howard; Call Girl, Tang Fei; Cry of the Kharchal, Vandana Singh; Sister Twelve: Confessions of a Party Monster, Christopher Barzak; Found, Alex Dally MacFarlane; Elementals, Ursula K Le Guin; and a poetry issue of STrange Horizons.

Bitch Media with recs for 50books_poc challenge.

I have had recs for Seraphina, a collection of trans and genderqueer poetry & poetics, Walter J. Ong, Laura's Wolf; A Bird Is Not A Stone, a collection of translated Palestinian poetry.

From the winter 2011 Goblin Fruit, Callisto at the Corner Coffee Shop and Snowmelt.

I still need to get around to ebooking the Rilke letters (and then sticking them up on Gutenburg). (Only To A Young Poet, but if there's interest in it I'll do the rest.)